DARPA: PREventing EMerging Pathogenic Threats (PREEMPT)

DARPA is soliciting innovative proposals for research to develop new tools and models to quantify the likelihood of a virus to jump from an animal host into humans, and to develop and validate new scalable technologies to target potential human-capable viral pathogens in wild reservoirs and/or mosquito vectors to prevent transmission to humans.

 

TA1: Develop and validate models for "animal-human jump"

TA2: Develop approaches to target and suppress the animal virus in its reservoir(s) and/or vector(s)

 

 

Funding: No fixed limit 

Duration: 3½ years (2 phases) 

 

 

Research Authority due date: 6.2.18

Abstract (encouraged) due date: 13.2.18

Full proposal due date: 27.3.18